Attachment is Love Part-1

Love is attachment…!!!

Like me, do you also believe the same?? Seven years ago I used to believe that love is attachment. Love is the reason for our hurts and plights.?

I was very tough on myself and other people. I treated people badly because I used to hate love. I ruled over people through power. People used to get scared just by my voice. I had a bad notion about love because of its outcome, i.e hurt.

But in the last year of my teenage years, I got awakened.? I met my Master and asked him? all my questions. I asked the master; why is love important when we can rule people by power?

?Master said, win people by love and respect, not by power. We don’t have to control people. Power brings fear , whereas love emerges the respect. We should allow them to live freely. We should teach them freedom. We should respect their opinion. Power is a symptom of attachment. Where there is attachment, fear of losing takes birth within our mind, which gives birth to controlling power, controlling power gives birth to suffocation in relations. Whereas, love gives birth to freedom. Master said, “attachment is temporary, it kills your identity, but love is immortal and it builds you from within”.?

I was not convinced without getting the logic behind it.

I argued with the master, how love is possible without attachment.

But master is master. With all the calmness and love, he said, my child: let me explain to you.

I got excited and curious. Master started sharing that love is a divine virtue. It has nothing to do with attachment. Love is the power of the soul and attachment comes from body consciousness. When you believe that you are this body, not the spirit, energy, or the soul, you misunderstand love with attachment. And you start believing that love is attachment. The hurt is the cause of attachment, not love. Attachment makes us emotionally weak. Love empowers us. It gives us power to forgive and forget. Since love is pure and divine energy. Purity and divinity never hurt someone. It only spreads peace and happiness.

I asked the master, what is body consciousness, the word you used above?

He replied: the root of this problem started, when we forgot that we are the spirit, soul, or the and energy, whatever name you give according to your belief. We got more attracted to the body. We started defining people’s characteristics based on their color, outer beauty, and emphasised more on external things. We forgot to elevate our inner beauty. In turn, we became more body-conscious. Master said; the biggest mistake we human beings made was that we forgot our true identity. We forgot our original nature. This started causing the problem not just to ourselves, even to other species, and the environment. He concluded that when our focus diverts from our true identity, i.e energy to the body, we become body conscious.

Master continued... The bodily attachment has killed our divine powers and virtues. That has given birth to expectations. And expectations have given birth to lust, greed, ego, anger, and attachment. The attachment has created hollowness within us. It has made us lower conscious energy from a higher conscious energy.?

Master asked me a question. Tell me, can an empty glass fill the other glass?'' I replied: no. Master said, but that’s what we all are doing. Snoopy me asked, how?

Master continued… Body consciousness has drained our divine powers and virtues. We have become like an empty glass. Unknowingly that the other glass is empty, I expected this empty glass to fill my emptiness. And when that empty glass was unable to do that, I was hurt. That other glass thought I would fill my glass from someone else's glass. Someone else’s glass was also empty. Likewise, this person also got hurt. Thereafter,? all empty glasses tried to fill each other’s emptiness from another empty glass without knowing that everyone's glass was empty. As a result, everyone got hurt and created the emotions of hatred for others.

Now you tell; who is responsible for this hurt and hatred: Master asked me.

My expectations of filling my emptiness from an empty glass; I replied.?

Exactly,? the Master nodded his head in agreement and continued….And everyone’s expectation created a negative emotion of hurt for self? and hatred for their loved ones. That lowered our divine energy and disturbed the whole ecosystem.

Master emphasized that the second biggest mistake we made was, instead of taking responsibility for that hurt, we blamed that empty glass. We said, because of them I got hurt. No no no…!!! not because of them, but because of our own expectations we felt plight. They were empty, how could an empty glass fill another empty glass? We started questioning their intention. That just did not hurt yourself, it hurt them also. Since, our negative energy? reaches them via radiation. As a result, it spoils our relations.?

I understood what the master said. I received clarity on the difference between love and attachment. I understood the meaning of attachment clearly and also understood our two big mistakes in life. I hope through my master’s lessons you also have got wisdom to understand the difference between love and attachment.

Though, the lesson is not yet complete. Master explained the depth of love and attachment. Master shared the meaning of selfless love and how we practice it and overcome our own hurts. Master also shared how we can give selfless love without expectations.

If you want to know what further my master taught me, stay tuned for the next blog.?

See you soon

Nats